Soviet 6th Army

The Soviet 6th Army was a Soviet Red Army field army that existed from 1939 to 1945 and from 1960 to 1991. The army took part in the invasion of Poland in 1939, but it was destroyed after the Battle of Uman in 1941. The army was later reformed to take part in the fighting for Kharkov and then for the offensives into Ukraine and into Poland and Germany in 1943-1945. The army was disbanded in 1991 upon the fall of the USSR.